No One Can Explain Why Planes Stay in the Air (2020)
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No One Can Explain Why Planes Stay in the Air (2020)
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Re: No One Can Explain Why Planes Stay in the Air (2020)
#2The title is complete clickbait. It should say “no one’s short intuitive explanations of why planes stay in the air are fully correct”
Re: No One Can Explain Why Planes Stay in the Air (2020)
#3The title is complete clickbait. It should say “no one’s short intuitive explanations of why planes stay in the air are fully correct”
Exactly. Like many things in physics there are simple answers, there are correct answers, and there's a sliding scale between the two.
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Re: No One Can Explain Why Planes Stay in the Air (2020)
#5I'd say reaction force is a sufficient explanation. The wing compresses the air column below it. The pressurised air generates buoyancy sufficient to dynamically support the air craft while moving at a high enough speed.
Re: No One Can Explain Why Planes Stay in the Air (2020)
#6The title is complete clickbait. It should say “no one’s short intuitive explanations of why planes stay in the air are fully correct”
Exactly. Like many things in physics there are simple answers, there are correct answers, and there's a sliding scale between the two.
Not 'fully correct' there are also simple/correct answers and complex/incorrect answers.
Re: No One Can Explain Why Planes Stay in the Air (2020)
#7I'd say reaction force is a sufficient explanation. The wing compresses the air column below it. The pressurised air generates buoyancy sufficient to dynamically support the air craft while moving at a high enough speed.
And unless you cross over to supersonic regime it's completely wrong (^_-)
Re: No One Can Explain Why Planes Stay in the Air (2020)
#8Just as no one can explain how bicycles stay up once they get moving. Or why hot air rises but it's always cold in the mountains when they should be hot from all that rising hot air.
Re: No One Can Explain Why Planes Stay in the Air (2020)
#9I'd say reaction force is a sufficient explanation. The wing compresses the air column below it. The pressurised air generates buoyancy sufficient to dynamically support the air craft while moving at a high enough speed.
And unless you cross over to supersonic regime it's completely wrong (^_-)
Ok. Why? See if this is an educational discussion it makes sense to support one's argument, not just say no, you're wrong...I supported my argument with a plausible explanation.
If planes are not supported by the air beneath them pushing up why don't they fall out of the sky?
Re: No One Can Explain Why Planes Stay in the Air (2020)
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
And unless you cross over to supersonic regime it's completely wrong (^_-)
Ok. Why? See if this is an educational discussion it makes sense to support one's argument, not just say no, you're wrong...I supported my argument with a plausible explanation. If planes are not supported by the air beneath them pushing up why don't they fall out of the sky?
There are simple experiments you can perform to prove the correctness of Bernoulli’s principle. If the math cannot accurately describe completely what is happening, then it is our math that is lacking. Technically the air is less dense on top which generates lift. And yes planes do fall from the sky when they stall due large angles of attack which disrupt the laminar flow.